Quick & easy cocktails you can make at home

Drinks you build straight in the glass are the easiest, because you don’t need a shaker or a strainer. A gin and tonic, a Moscow Mule or a Skindy (champagne and sloe gin) each take about two minutes.

A cocktail shaker, a jigger for measuring, a bar spoon and a Hawthorne strainer cover almost every recipe on ThatCocktail. Add a highball glass and a cocktail glass and you’re set. Our cocktail equipment recommendations and glassware guide list the kit we rate.

Yes. A clean jam jar with a tight lid works well. Add ice and your ingredients, screw the lid on and shake hard for 10 to 15 seconds, then strain into your glass through a small sieve. Highballs like the Southern Senorita are stirred in the glass, so they don’t need shaking at all.

A part is a ratio rather than a fixed amount. Choose one measure and use it for every part: if 1 part is 30ml, then 2 parts is 60ml. That’s why our recipes list ml, oz and parts, so you can scale a drink up for a jug or down for a smaller glass.

Start with a spirit you already enjoy drinking. Between them, vodka, gin, white rum and tequila cover most popular cocktails, and a bottle of triple sec adds dozens more. Our alcohol recommendations list the brands we rate.

Yes. Our non-alcoholic cocktails collection has booze-free drinks for designated drivers and dry nights in, including a Pornstar Martini mocktail that keeps the passion fruit flavour of the original.